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A deadly pandemic and deadly policing have brought us to a national moment of reckoning over race. Black-business lists are circulating on social media. Major corporations are taking stances on racial injustice. All because people have taken to the s...

“Think before you speak. Read before you think.” – Fran Lebowitz To say I enjoy reading would be an understatement. A large part of my day involves reading — research reports, industry trade articles, investing blogs, and a smattering of geopolitical...

Antonio’s, my kids’ favourite pizza-by-the-slice joint, will be fine. The rest of downtown Amherst, Massachusetts, where I live — I’m not so sure. Antonio’s is — or was, before March — perpetually swarming with high school and college students, local...

A recent post on the Facebook page, Maj’s List, stirred up some healthy conversation and launched me into some thoughts I’ve had particularly in the past decade surrounding entry-level employment opportunities, or lack thereof, in Bermuda. Here’s th...

In response to the Proposed Cannabis (Licensing and Regulation) Act 2020, the Inter-Agency Committee for Children and Families, a network of social and human service providers and non-profit organisations, reached out to its membership to solicit fee...

This is a look at the Labour Force Survey report issued in May 2020 issued by the Bermuda Government Department of Statistics. The report is based on data collected from the November 2018, May 2019 and November 2019 surveys. It presents survey highli...

Dear Sir, I am writing to you as I am concerned about the way my commencement speech to the Berkeley Graduating Class of 2020 was summarised in The Royal Gazette on June 30, 2020. I am giving you a shout as a courtesy, as I will now have to take ste...

One hundred years from now, how would historians have characterised this period we now call today. In the perspective of black history, how or in what context would this current period be labelled amid the 400 year travail, and assuming one hundred y...

“I’m just different.” That is what 23-year-old Elijah McClain told police in Aurora, Colorado, after they stopped him as he walked home from a convenience store last August because someone saw the young black man and reported a suspicious person. Tho...

Over the past month, protests across the country, and even the world, have erupted in response to the death of George Floyd by white Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin. While the protests have focused on police violence, the issues of racism ar...